Sylar is the Heroes villain.
After two weeks, it’s time to finish the Heroes food series. This is the fourth recipe inspired by a Heroes character: enchiladas with mole sauce stuffed with a “special” ingredient for Sylar.
After three weeks making food for the good guys of Heroes, we have come to the 85% bad guy. Sylar has had epiphanies that he should be good, and lost his memory, forgetting that he’s bad. But when he’s himself, he’s really good at being the villain.
Sylar is obsessed with being special, so much so that he kills other heroes and absorbs their powers. He’s the most powerful “hero,” having accumulated telekinesis, hyper-sensitive hearing, rapid cell regeneration, precognition, radioactive ability, electric manipulation, and shape shifting abilities, to name a few.
This season, Sylar has lost all of his memories – how he got to this point is complicated; see Sylar’s Heroes wiki entry if you’re curious – but there are flickers (a scary facial expression, for example) that hint that the old bad guy is still in his body, somewhere.
If I was really making a meal for Sylar, I would have combined the ingredients on the Chicago Tribune‘s Forbidden Foods list, but Sylar’s meal is limited by my food choices and finances. Instead, I made bean and potato enchiladas and mole sauce with a “special” ingredient – black currants.
Honestly, my experiments with this recipe didn’t work out well, but that’s how it goes with Sylar – most times when he’s around, someone (or some food) suffers.
Enchiladas and Mole Sauce with Black Currants
This enchiladas are covered in a mole sauce made with black currants.
Sylar loves his abilities because they make him special. If he were a vegetarian in a ironic character twist, he might be drawn to black currants, sour berries that U.S. farmers weren’t allowed to cultivate until 2003 (the plants can carry a fungus that is toxic for pine trees). Apparently, only a few farmers grow them today.
I used ½ cup of black currants in this red mole sauce recipe (scroll down to find it). You can order fresh black currants from The Currant Company for around $30 and have them in two days, or you can follow this mole recipe with dried black currants.
I also used two kinds of special beans – October and Speckled Butter – and both sweet and regular potatoes to represent Sylar’s two personalities (the bad guy and the amnesiac).
Here’s the recipe for bean and potato enchiladas that I used as a guide. If you feel better knowing that your hard work will turn out well, go with this recipe.
However, Sylar is all about risk. If you’re up for it, read more about black currants in this New York Times article, order your bag, and start experimenting with your mole.
That recipe looks delicious! Might have to try it….
Hi Peter,
You might want to use the linked recipe on the post because I don’t think my mole experiment worked out too well. Luckily, a recipe that doesn’t work out fits the Heroes character of Sylar so I still posted it!
Good luck! Let us know how your enchiladas and/or mole turn out.
Jen
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